United States Army Department of South Carolina Records

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Printed "General Orders, No. 18," and "Circular No. 8," 15 August 1865, created by the United States Army, Department of South Carolina, headquartered in Hilton Head, relays related to the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Circular No. 8 includes descriptions of rations given to "adult refugees and to adult freedmen, when they are not employed by the Government, and who may have no means of subsisting themselves," as well as special rations for women and children. How and when the rations may be issued is included, as is a command that "all 'abandoned' houses and lands now in the possession of the Military Authorities1⁄4that are not required for Military use, will be at once turned over to such agents of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands." The order originated with O[liver] O[tis] Howard, who served as the Bureau's commissioner. [Howard also served as a general in the Union Army and was a founder and namesake of Howard University in Washington, D.C.]